Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday. It comes after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the ...

VJ Day on August 15 marks the anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, effectively ending the Second World War. Veronica Silander ...

James ‘Jim’ Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941 after it was torpedoed in the South China Sea.

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than one million US dollars from the US to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labelled “plastic animal toys”.

A community in Co Down has been “shaken and upset deeply” by the attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Father John Murray was struck on the head in ...

Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new ...

Fewer students who are receiving their post-16 results this summer met the entry requirements for A-level courses two years ago, Ucas’s ...

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and the European Space Agency are leading the scheme.

The 45-year-old US citizen claimed to be in love with co-conspirator Mohammed Nabil Nazir, who joined her on a road trip after the bungled shooting.

Bronwen James, 29, pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in sexual communication with a child but she denied a total of 11 other offences.

Rachel Reeves made her first trip to the province as Chancellor, visiting the filmmaking facilities at Studio Ulster in Belfast.

A Labour councillor who called for far-right protesters’ throats to be cut at an anti-racism protest told police the “ill-advised” comments were made “in the heat of the moment”, a court has heard.